5 or 6 days ago, I started with the series. Yesterday, I finally watched ep 25+26. I was like... what the hell?
Then I read on Reddit that you have to watch EoE afterwards since the last two episodes are... idk what they are but not a good ending.
Still after I watched the film, the lore is pretty confusing (at least for beginners) and a lot of aspects from the series were not/poorly explained. Especially the last 30 minutes of EoE were just like the last half of ep 26 but more ordered and well animated. It is very hard for me to come to a conclusion of what I think of Evangelion.
I watched about 85 animes until now and somehow lost the ability to finish a show of that length within less than 3 months. So it was pretty refreshing that it kept entertaining me unlike other animes. But I still don't know what the franchise is actually about - and I say that as a Fate fan.
I'd prefer EoE as an ending rather than Ep25+26 and the entertainment stayed on a good level. I wouldn't call it good written though. I think a good written ending has the obligation to conclude the story more than to let the irritated you write an Imdb comment on it for some reason. At least it is everything but mainstream and stands out even after all those years. The animation quality is good, still to this day, and I can totally understand all types of ratings on this.
Thanks for reading! I usually don't write film reviews or what you would call it, but I felt the need to sort my thoughts after 1½ hours of ...whatever it was?!
(Also, I felt like this was a great opportunity to test my English skills a little bit, I'm not a native speaker)
Then I read on Reddit that you have to watch EoE afterwards since the last two episodes are... idk what they are but not a good ending.
Still after I watched the film, the lore is pretty confusing (at least for beginners) and a lot of aspects from the series were not/poorly explained. Especially the last 30 minutes of EoE were just like the last half of ep 26 but more ordered and well animated. It is very hard for me to come to a conclusion of what I think of Evangelion.
I watched about 85 animes until now and somehow lost the ability to finish a show of that length within less than 3 months. So it was pretty refreshing that it kept entertaining me unlike other animes. But I still don't know what the franchise is actually about - and I say that as a Fate fan.
I'd prefer EoE as an ending rather than Ep25+26 and the entertainment stayed on a good level. I wouldn't call it good written though. I think a good written ending has the obligation to conclude the story more than to let the irritated you write an Imdb comment on it for some reason. At least it is everything but mainstream and stands out even after all those years. The animation quality is good, still to this day, and I can totally understand all types of ratings on this.
Thanks for reading! I usually don't write film reviews or what you would call it, but I felt the need to sort my thoughts after 1½ hours of ...whatever it was?!
(Also, I felt like this was a great opportunity to test my English skills a little bit, I'm not a native speaker)